Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com
Sun Jul 3 04:17:00 GMT 2011

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Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> writes:

> [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$ more ~/test/x.c
> int main() { return 0; }
> [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$ g++ -L/bin/sh ~/test/x.c
> /usr/bin/ld: error: /bin/sh: can not read directory: Not a directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> but
>
> [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$ g++ -L/notexistant ~/test/x.c
> [arekm@ixion-pld ~]$
>
> (doesn't complain)
>
> $ ld --version
> GNU gold (Linux/GNU Binutils 2.21.52.0.2.20110610) 1.11
> [...]
>
> Note that ld.bfd has no trouble with -L pointing to not a directory (it simply 
> ignores that fact).
>
> IMO gold should match ld.bfd behaviour and simply ignore not a directories.

Makes sense.  Fixed like so.  Committed to mainline.

Ian


2011-07-02  Ian Lance Taylor  <iant@google.com>

	* dirsearch.cc (Dir_cache::read_files): Ignore ENOTDIR errors.


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